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Hyperbolic

Specialist Cloud

Hyperbolic is an open-access AI cloud offering H100 and A100 GPU instances with per-minute billing and no minimum commitment, making it one of the most accessible on-demand GPU cloud options for AI researchers and developers. Competitive H100 cloud pricing and a frictionless sign-up process lower the barrier to entry for LLM experimentation, fine-tuning, and short-burst training runs. A practical choice for researchers who need flexible, pay-as-you-go GPU access without enterprise contracts.

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Cheapest On-Demand

$1.31/hr

Cheapest Spot

GPU Listings

2

Billing

On-demand (per-minute)

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Provider Info

Headquarters

Berkeley, CA

Founded

2023

Regions

US

Min Commitment

None

Support

Community → Pro

Strengths

  • Per-minute billing
  • No minimum commitment
  • Competitive H100 pricing
  • Research-friendly

Limitations

  • Smaller provider — limited scale vs hyperscalers
  • Fewer regions than major cloud providers
  • Less mature ecosystem and fewer integrations

Best For

AI researchersShort burst workloadsCost-sensitive developers

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GPU ModelvRAMOn-DemandSpotAvailabilityRegion
A100 80GB80 GB$1.31MedUS
H100 80GB80 GB$3.83MedUS

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Hyperbolic GPU pricing overview

Hyperbolic is a specialist GPU cloud provider headquartered in Berkeley, CA. Hyperbolic is an open-access AI cloud offering H100 and A100 GPU instances with per-minute billing and no minimum commitment, making it one of the most accessible on-demand GPU cloud options for AI researchers and developers. Competitive H100 cloud pricing and a frictionless sign-up process lower the barrier to entry for LLM experimentation, fine-tuning, and short-burst training runs. A practical choice for researchers who need flexible, pay-as-you-go GPU access without enterprise contracts. Billing is On-demand (per-minute) with a minimum commitment of None. Available regions include US. On-demand GPU instances can be provisioned in minutes with no upfront cost, making Hyperbolic suitable for both short-duration experiments and sustained production workloads.

Hyperbolic vs other GPU providers

Hyperbolic competes with providers including Lambda Labs, CoreWeave, RunPod, Paperspace, Vast.ai, and the major hyperscalers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) for GPU compute workloads spanning LLM training, fine-tuning, and inference serving. Key differentiators include: Per-minute billing; No minimum commitment; Competitive H100 pricing. Use the side-by-side comparison tool above to see Hyperbolic pricing against any other provider across shared GPU models. For a broader market view, the live GPU prices table shows all 2 Hyperbolic listings alongside 94+ providers in a single sortable view.

Best use cases for Hyperbolic

Hyperbolic is best suited for: AI researchers, Short burst workloads, Cost-sensitive developers. Support tiers range from Community → Pro, making it viable for both individual researchers and enterprise teams with SLA requirements. There are currently 2 active GPU listings on Hyperbolic, covering A100 80GB, H100 80GB. For workloads requiring the highest single-GPU throughput, H100 SXM5 instances with NVLink interconnect deliver the best performance per dollar at scale. For cost-sensitive fine-tuning or inference of models up to 13B parameters, A100 40GB or RTX 4090 instances typically offer the best value.

Hyperbolic billing model and cost structure

Hyperbolic uses On-demand (per-minute) pricing. On-demand instances are billed per second or per hour depending on the instance type, with no termination fees. Spot pricing is not currently available on this provider — all instances are on-demand. Reserved instance pricing, where available, can reduce costs by 30–60% for predictable long-running workloads. Always compare the effective hourly rate including egress, storage, and networking costs when evaluating total cost of ownership across providers.

Choosing the right GPU on Hyperbolic

GPU selection depends on model size, precision, and whether your workload is compute-bound or memory-bandwidth-bound. For LLM training above 30B parameters, H100 80GB SXM5 instances with NVLink are the standard choice — the 3,350 GB/s HBM3 bandwidth and 989 TFLOPS FP16 throughput make them 2–2.5× faster than A100 for transformer workloads. For inference of 7B–13B models in FP16 or BF16, A100 40GB offers the best cost-per-token on most providers. RTX 4090 instances are ideal for fine-tuning, prototyping, and quantized inference (INT4/INT8) of models up to 70B. Read the H100 vs A100 guide or the GPU benchmarks for ML guide for a full breakdown.

How Hyperbolic pricing data is collected

Prices shown are sourced from Hyperbolic's public pricing API or pricing page and refreshed every 15 minutes. On-demand rates reflect the current list price for a single GPU instance in the cheapest available region. Spot prices, where available, reflect interruptible instance rates at the time of the last snapshot. All prices are in USD per hour. Daily snapshots are retained for 90 days and visualised in the GPU price history charts — useful for identifying seasonal pricing patterns and evaluating whether current rates are above or below the 30-day average.

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